“We didn’t need to name specific crimes in the articles because what we did encompasses all of that,” Pennsylvania Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon said.
“We don’t prosecute crimes in Congress, we protect the Constitution,” California Rep. Eric Swalwell added
https://rollcall.com/2019/12/11/house-democrats-abandon-crimes-in-trump-impeachment-articles/
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/does-impeachment-require-criminal-behavior-in-a-word-no/